Name: (Re)touching lives through photos
Uploaded: 2012-08-02T15:07:11Z
Duration: 9 min 32 s
Description: In the wake of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, mixed into the wreckage were lost and damaged photos of families and loved ones. Photo retoucher Becci Manson, together with local volunteers and a global group of colleagues she recruited online, helped clean and fix them, restoring those memories to their owners.

In the wake of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, mixed into the wreckage were lost and damaged photos of families and loved ones. Photo retoucher Becci Manson, together with local volunteers and a global group of colleagues she recruited online, helped clean and fix them, restoring those memories to their owners.

Becci Manson: (Re)touching lives through photos

(Re)touching lives through photos

After the 2011 tsunami in Japan, a retoucher spearheads a global effort to restore damaged photos, rekindling lost memories.

Volunteers worldwide join to meticulously heal photos marred by the tsunami, piecing together fragments of a pre-disaster world.

Through the power of photo restoration, a global community restores not just images but pieces of humanity lost to natural disaster.